“The City of Vancouver secretly approved a bailout of more than $1-million for the struggling Vancouver Playhouse Theatre and the Museum Of Vancouver (MOV), and will provide an annual operating grant to the theatre company, which had been facing bankruptcy without the emergency help.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Novelists: Don’t Think, Just Write — Or Give Up Your Spot In Culture
“Suddenly our important writers seem less like color commentators, sifting through the emotional, sexual and intellectual detritus of how we live today, and more like a mountaintop Moses, handing down the granite tablets every decade or so to a bemused and stooped populace.”
Defining “Cute” With Baby Talk — And Why We Love Puffins
“Think of Lorenz’s six criteria for cuteness, and puffins score a clear five out of six with their large heads, low-lying eyes, bulging cheeks, short limbs and clumsy movements. It’s little wonder that even nonbirding visitors to the North Atlantic or the North Pacific oceans want to see puffins.”
Music In The Mountains: Deep In The Heart Of Colombia’s “Sistema”
“In the words of its director, Juan Antonio Cuellar, ‘Social action is the mission; music is the tool.’ Cuellar describes taking a plane across a remote area of the Andes, driving to the end of the only road, taking a boat to a small town … and finding the children singing songs and working in recorder ensembles exactly as they do in downtown Bogotá.”
Museum Wants More For Admission? It’s Not Necessarily Evil
“Museums’ pricing structures aren’t a question of universal morality. They’re a question of mission. Mission first.”
David Lui, 66, Who Brought “Dance Boom” To Vancouver
Once known as the Boy Impresario, “he introduced Vancouver audiences to some of the world’s great dance companies, and inspired a generation of artists and viewers.”
Want To Save Print Books, Oldster? Keep On Sporting Your E-Reader
“Almost anyone I know who owns a Kindle or similar digital device is over 40, and because they’re over 40, the same kids who begat Napster and file-sharing of rock ’n’ roll will run as far from the phenomenon as possible.”
In Order To Get It Right, Get It Wrong – A Whole Heck Of A Lot
“The students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence. They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fight with their parents; to resist the urge to go out to the movies and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help after class.”
Get That Handbasket To Hell Ready: Booker Judges Want “Zippy” Reads
“Nobody could deny that Jeffrey Archer ticks the zippy box, along with hundreds of other authors who might, in previous years, have been given to understand that a total lack of seriousness, along with the inability to write a decent sentence, still constituted powerful obstacles to Booker success. No longer.”
No, Not Swingers, And Not Free Love; Just Rethinking Monogamy
“If, as Dan Savage suggests, we’re not cut out for monogamy as a species, we’re not alone here. Quite the reverse. Scarcely a month goes by without some creature, once thought to be a heart-warming example of lifelong fidelity, being exposed as a serial philanderer.”